-300 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Acalypha 



There are two well-marked forms, one with leaves oblong-lauceolate, 

 serrate, more or less hairy (A. scahrosa Sw.), the other with leaves roundish 

 to elliptical, crenate, glabrous except on nerves [A. bctulxfolia Sw.) ; 

 but these forms are connected by intermediates. A form with blunt 

 ovate glabrescent leaves is A. scabrosa, var. ovata Griseb., one with 

 elongated lanceolate softly hairy leaves is var. elcnigata Urban. 



4. A. alopecuroidea Jacq. Collect. Hi 196 (1789) & Ic. PL 

 Har. in. t. 620; annual herb; inflorescence 1 -sexual ; female 

 spike terminal, plume-like, sometimes apparently axillary through 

 shortness of branch, with a bristle-like appendage at the apex 

 about 1 cm. 1., tipped with an abortive flower ; fruiting .bract 

 •divided into 3-5 segments 7-10 mm. 1., triangular-ovate at the 

 base, apex long, bristle-like.— WWd. Sp. PI. iv. 526; Mticll. Arg. 

 torn. cit. 882 ; Millspaugh in Field Golumh. Mus. Bot. ii. 58, 156 ; 

 Jhitton in Bull. Torr. Bot. Gl. xli. 12. 



A weed, Hope, near Porus, 1150 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8210. — Bahamas, 

 Cuba, Cayman Is., Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Grenada, Mexico, Honduras, 

 •(Tuatemala, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela. 



Boots much branched, fibrous. Stein erect, branching from near the 

 woody base, 7 in. to Ij^ ft. high, branches pubescent. Leaves 2-4(-7) 

 cm. 1., ovate, with a short narrow acuminate apex, base rounded or trun- 

 cate, serrate, nerves pinnate, generally two on each side from the base, 

 membranous, usually glabrous, sometimes sparingly pubescent; petiole 

 generally as long as the leaf, 2-3(-4) cm. 1. ; stipules small, linear- 

 lanceolate. Sjnkes : male axillary, very short, 3-9 mm. 1.; female "5-2 

 cm. 1. Fruiting bracts enclosing one capsule, membranous, covered with 

 hairs, some long, l'5-2 mm. 1., some glandular, short. Cax>sitlc 1"3-1'4 

 mm. 1. Seed ellipsoidal, about 1 mm. 1. 



5. A. eorehorifolia A. Rich, in Sayra Cub. xi. 203 (1850) 

 ^non Willd.) ; herbaceous annual ; inflorescence 1-sexual, male 

 and female on the same branch, female usually terminal, some- 

 what lax-flowered ; fruiting bract about 2 mm. 1., divided to 

 near the middle into about twenty oblong acute lobes. — 

 A. polystachya Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 48 (1859) (non Jacq.). 

 A. persimilis Muell. Arg. in Linnsea axxiv. 25 (1865) & in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 842 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 347. 



St. Elizabeth, Wtdlschlaegel. — Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico. A specimen 

 from the "West Indies" named A. coixhorifolia by Swartz is in Herb. 

 Stockholm, 



Smoothly puberulous on young txvigs and petioles. Leaves 3 '5-7 

 cm. 1., ovate, acuminate, base slightly cordate, serrate, membranous, 

 nerves two on each side from the base, and a supplementary one, pube- 

 rulous ; petiole nearly as long as the leaf. Spikes : male slender, axillary, 

 to 1'2 cm. 1., with peduncle about as long as spike ; female occasionally in 

 axils of upper leaves, '4-5 cm. 1. Female bract 1-flowered, rough. Capsule 

 about 2"5 mm. 1., rough with tubercles. Seeds grey, rough and wrinkled, 

 ovate-globular, 2 mm. 1. 



6. A. virgata L. Syst. ed. 10, 1275 (1759) Sc Aman. v. 410, 

 383 (the reference on p. 383 of the specific name to Browne's 



